Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.

There’s been a lot of talk of getting off Google in recent years, but now it’s time for people to get serious. This company believes it has people locked in. People need to show Google there are consequences for its actions. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

I'm not a lawyer, so this is just a lay person's opinion, but there are wide swaths of americans who now fully understand that legal relief is not possible unless the republican party approves of us. we understand congress is not an avenue for redress. everything now depends on the presidency.

This feels like a scene from a prequel to Alex Garland's Civil War.

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

This is a review essay featuring three books on trans-inclusion in sport: @katiebarnes.bsky.social's Fair Play, Harrison Browne and @rachelbrowne.ca's Let Us Play, and Ellie Roscher and Anna Baethe's Fair Game. I recommend them all! I recommend reading them all together.

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Forever obligated to note Reagan said this dumb line as a joke in defense of a giant government assistance package for farmers www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

It's kind of ironic that Democrats think they're acting responsibly by tamping down this kind of justified anger instead of channeling it, but it's really the opposite. Leads to disaffection, radicalization

One month ago: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things”

An ongoing criminal conspiracy, being carried out in broad daylight; a theft so brazen that they have a good chance of getting away with it by sheer chutzpah.

Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

The federal government just set up a reparations fund for this guy.

It is actually good news that corporations, at least, will still ban people for the Nazi rhetoric being espoused by the Department of Homeland Security www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

John Oliver keeps doing some of the most important journalism of our time

Posing her in front of a garden that has died from lack of water is :chef’s kiss:

AI Booster Graduation Speaker: lame, uninspiring, zero juice, students hate it Muppet Graduation Speaker: life-changing, memorable, solution to most world problems

"My feeling as I recount this history is, How dare they? How dare this cabal of unelected, life-tenured lawyers reject decades of careful research, analysis, and open debate by the people’s representatives because, so they claim, racism in America isn’t a real issue anymore?"

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

Imagine choosing to do this with the one life that God gave you. Imagine making this message your professional mission.

Two young women made content about the downside of data centers and Kevin O’Leary went on Fox and accused them of being Chinese communists. They hit back and this is the media we need to encourage. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pfenYb/

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Kevin O'Leary, who is Canadian, accused two ordinary Americans -- by name, on Fox News -- of being Chinese communist agents working against "our" country. Their response is fantastic.

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

Yeh, but this is one of the issues with AI because it leaves people unsure what is authentic. The issue isn't people being stupid for not recognizing Monet, it's that this has left people unable to appreciate art passing by due to uncertainty over whether it represents human endeavour.

Kate O’Flynn is a best part of a cast that is already comprised of the best parts of various casts

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

“What else is the point of all this wealth and technology that our country has amassed, if not to put it to work saving the lives of little boys like Rakan?”

It took us a week to even find this dumpsterfire to bash and Bluesky LOVES to bash a good dumpsterfire

This account has been active for nearly three months. It has accrued a grand total of 16 followers in that time.

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.

can't imagine why this wapo opinions video isn't doing well on youtube! (one of them tells us he went to harvard within the first 30 seconds, i shit you not)

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

"Mike has 20 grandmothers who volunteer at the Grandma Stand in New York City and it’s now grown to at least six more states and 20 other localities looking into the idea. And it’s a win-win for everyone." pix11.com/news/local-n...

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

“…you have the numbers, but you don’t have the courage. Because if you were really visionary leaders, you’d run against these Black men with fair maps, and you’d get your asses whupped.”

I find that folks who criticize Dem messaging as “out of touch” never say what GOP messaging is “in touch” with. Why? In 8 days they’ve managed to redistrict several states to remove Black political representation. They know exactly what GOP messages are in touch with, but don’t want to admit it.

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

Quick reminder as you shove your hot takes about the role of academics in shaping university policy into the world today: about 75% of higher ed faculty in the US are contingent workers on fixed-term contracts.

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

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